(google.com): Drug companies should be forced to publish all their trial data rather than selecting evidence to back up their claims, experts have said. A review of clinical trial results for the anti-depressant Edronax (reboxetine) showed pharmaceutical firms did not publish most of the data for the drug.

(thespec.com): Scores of readers have embraced devices like Kindles and iPads, but their new-found popularity has also brought about concerns that e-books are having a "Napster moment." Google searches for illegal downloads are up 50 per cent in the last year. Publishers hope to appeal to readers to make the right choice.

(sciblogs.co.nz): Plagiarism is the use of text from others' writing without attribution. This was a big issue for student assessment at universities but apparently it is also an issue for scientific journals. Many journals now use a computer programme to check out submitted papers for plagiarized content..

(insidehighered.com): It has been more than a year since five leading research universities agreed to establish "timely" mechanisms for paying the publication fees for faculty who decide to publish in open-access journals. The goal is to eventually lure journals away from a subscriber-based model that limits access to articles and costs libraries a fortune. Open-access journals eliminate the steep prices of print, but their growth has been limited by the absence of a revenue stream to support the costs associated with peer review. The idea that top universities might help subsidize these costs was seen by some as a key step toward creating a revenue stream to replace subscriber fees.

(publishersweekly.com): A one-day online event that featured a keynote by technologist Ray Kurzweil and more than 15 hours of presentations, "E-Books: Libraries at the Tipping Point" focused on every aspect of the developing e-book market and its impact on public, school, and academic libraries. Held September 29 and organized by Library Journal and School Library Journal, the virtual "summit" on e-books certainly delivered on its promises. The conference was meant to address the fact that "public and school libraries are struggling to understand the e-book industry. The aim was to bring libraries and publishers together and offer a huge knowledge dump about what e-books are and what the challenges are for libraries.